🇬🇧 Advantages and disadvantages of living in the interior of Brazil

Advantages and disadvantages of living in cities in the interior of Brazil is the theme of this text. I never lived in cities with less than three hundred thousand inhabitants. This is a medium-sized city for brazilian standards. I visited many smaller cities traveling. My main reference is medium-sized cities, but the references I have to smaller cities are part of this text too. In the next text I speak of the advantages and disadvantages of living in the countryside. Include the blog in your favorite feed reader or follow by email so you don't miss a thing.

Advantages of living in cities in the interior of Brazil

• In general, the smaller the city, the lower the cost of living. There are exceptions, such as small towns with great tourist appeal.
• The sense of security tends to be greater in smaller cities, although violence exists even in povoados (places inhabited by a few tens or a few hundred people in the countryside, with a commercial structure and usually a school, and without self-government. The mayor responsible for the povoado is the one responsible for the municipality of which that povoado is part).
• There are popular cultural events that are usually forgotten or unknown in capitals, and some happen so close to us that we cannot ignore them, such as the June festivities in Caruaru and Campina Grande or the party of the catopês in Montes Claros, which takes place in the month of August.
• If the city is close to a capital and the roads are good or there are regular and direct commercial flights, it is possible to travel easily to enjoy the benefits of the capitals.

Disadvantages of living in the interior of Brazil

• If you wear something very different, many people are staring as if you were a being from another planet.
• The smaller the city, the less leisure options there are.
• Also, the variety of universities is less than in capitals.
• The smaller the city, the greater the chances of finding your ex.
• Gossip. Once I went out at night with my brother in the city where I was born and the next day in the morning someone had already gone to tell my mother that saw me at the pizzeria with a boyfriend. (My brother lived with my father). And the city is not even small!!!
• Very little variety of restaurants. Where I was born there are basically Portuguese restaurants, pizzerias, steakhouses and buffet restaurants per kilo (something that apparently only exists in Brazil or maybe exists outside as a Brazilian initiative). In Uberlândia there were also Chinese restaurants and a Japanese restaurant when I lived there. Not every capital has much more than that.
• Perhaps because of gossip, people's creativity and their desire to do something different is inversely proportional to the size of the city. The smaller the city, the less people put creativity into practice in all aspects of life.

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Nycka, the Nomad